Science/Health/Medicine, working out, running, nutrition, mountain climbing, snow skiing, modern design, art, painting, pottery, building things with my hands, loud music, 4-wheeling, fishing, playing guitar,, traveling, fast cars, etc.
I love almost all kinds of music, especially live. I mostly like modern rock and down tempo stuff and rogue jazz. I don't like country or hardcore rap (the rarest of the talented few I do). I like musicians and groups like Ian Thornley, Rene Thomas, Jeremy Enigk, John Mayer, DMB, The Fray, Cold Play, Placebo, Carbon Leaf, Fiona Apple, Jimmy Eat World, Skillet, Our Lady Peace, ISM, Angels and Airwaves, Breaking Bengamins, 10 Years...could go on forever.
I also like techno (tend to go on the trance side) Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyke. Ferry Corsten, Digweed, Tiesto, BT.
Amelie, Rudy, Meet Joe Black, Great Expectations, Hotel Rownda, Meet the Parents, Grosse Point Blank, American History X, Fight Club, V for Vendetta, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Gangs of New York, Gattaca, 12 Monkeys, Event Horizon
Rx for Survival, The Shape of Life, Evolution, Art of the Western World, The Ghost in Your Genes, really anything from PBS NOVA, Discover Channel, or Science Channel. Band of Brothers, Top Gear, Mythbusters, Pushing Daisies, Lost, Mind Freak, Last Man (One) Standing (UK version), Going Tribal.
A mountain of textbooks for school right now. Anything from Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum. The Code Book is a real challenge, Guns Germs and Steel, Collapse, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Botany of Desire, The Tipping Point, Blink.
The selfless, like my parents. Anyone with vision and drive to do something, anything to help others. The W.H.O., C.D.C., UNICEF, Oxfam, PIH, and GPHIN. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Larry Brilliant, Dr. Robert Fischell, about anyone invited to speak at TedTalks, & Dr. Percy Julian.